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This one is a judgement call.
We could not work out what the word is, so we said so.
Everyone working through the list is told the same thing. A confident wrong answer is worse than admitting we do not know, and the note should still record the best guess we have. abbogada might be an Abyssinian judge's title. aliet might be an old name for a hawk.
It runs at about 4% of everything we have looked at.
When even the guess runs out and the note just says unidentified, the answer comes back red instead of yellow.
2,280 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | Our best guess |
|---|---|
| lunatellus | perhaps NL "little moon", a genus name |
| lundinarium | Med. Latin, perhaps a Monday market or due |
| luracan | opaque; perhaps a proper name |
| lutayo | opaque; perhaps a proper name |
| luteway | perhaps lute-way; sense unclear |
| lyance | perhaps aphetic form of alliance |
| lyraway | opaque; perhaps lyra-way |
| mabellona | apparently a proper name; unidentified |
| macaviator | opaque; perhaps a surname compound |
| machicui | apparently a vernacular animal or plant name |
| machogo | apparently a vernacular name; unidentified |
| mackallow | opaque; perhaps a vernacular plant name |
| maclib | opaque; perhaps 'Mac lib' or a trade name |
| macupi | perhaps a South American people or plant name |
| madreline | opaque; perhaps a fabric or trade name |
| maestive | opaque; possibly OCR of a maest-/majest- word |
| magalensia | apparently a New Latin name; unidentified |
| mahalamat | apparently an Arabic plural; unidentified |
| mahaly | opaque; perhaps a vernacular name |
| majagga | perhaps a variant of majagua |
| makadoo | opaque; apparently a vernacular name |
| malattress | opaque; perhaps a fabric or a mal- coinage |
| malikadna | apparently Arabic or Persian; unidentified |
| malikala | apparently a vernacular name; unidentified |
| malleli | perhaps a garbled malleoli |
| malleolable | apparently 'able to be hammered'; var. of malleable |
| malouah | apparently a vernacular name; unidentified |
| mamamu | opaque; apparently a vernacular name |
| mammin | opaque; perhaps a mamma- derivative |
| mamry | perhaps OCR of mammy |
| manderelle | perhaps a variant of mandrel |
| mandruka | opaque; apparently a vernacular name |
| mangour | opaque; apparently a vernacular name |
| mangrass | apparently a plant name, perhaps man-grass |
| mangrate | opaque; possibly a garbled compound |
| mangwe | apparently a southern African name |
| manificum | apparently Latin; perhaps for magnificum |
| manjel | perhaps an Indian plant name, turmeric |
| mannheimar | apparently for Mannheimer, of Mannheim |
| mannopus | opaque; apparently a manno- chemical term |
| mantevil | opaque; perhaps a garbled garment name |
| manzas | perhaps Spanish manzana, apple or block |
| mararie | perhaps a local fish or plant name |
| margullie | perhaps an obscure fish name |
| mariou | perhaps a local fish name |
| marmink | perhaps an animal or fur name |
| marrock | perhaps a dialect animal name |
| marsoon | perhaps a variant of monsoon or maroon |
| marteniko | perhaps a foreign personal or plant name |
| martinoe | perhaps a bird or plant name |
| marwer | perhaps a dialect form of marrower |
| masooka | perhaps a foreign plant or food name |
| masselgem | perhaps a variant of maslin, mixed grain |
| matalan | perhaps a foreign place or plant name |
| matax | perhaps Greek metaxa, raw silk |
| matchotic | possibly a mistranscribed technical term |
| mathemeg | perhaps a Welsh or dialect fish name |
| matrigan | perhaps a Gaelic plant name |
| mattaro | perhaps Mataró, Catalan town and wine |
| mattulla | perhaps a foreign proper name |
| mawkingly | perhaps for mawkishly |
| mazuca | perhaps a foreign plant or animal name |
| meaul | perhaps mewl or a dialect form |
| mecati | perhaps Spanish mecate, a rope |
| medidia | perhaps a Latin plural of an anatomical term |
| medidii | perhaps a Latin plural of an anatomical term |
| medille | possibly a foreign or mistranscribed word |
| medscheat | possibly OCR debris of a compound |
| megaara | perhaps Megara or Megaera |
| melanoi | perhaps Greek plural, "the dark ones" |
| melchora | possibly a Spanish personal or varietal name |
| meletski | probably a Russian surname or place-name |
| mellilita | perhaps melilite mineral or a honey preparation |
| melpell | perhaps an old form of pell-mell |
| menise | possibly an obsolete Anglo-French term |
| meraline | probably a coined chemical or dye name |
| merat | possibly the botanist's surname Mérat |
| merice | possibly merise, the wild cherry |
| merribush | possibly a dialectal plant or tavern-sign name |
| mestfull | possibly mastful, abounding in mast |
| metabular | possibly adjective of metabola/metabolism |
| metanomen | possibly nomenclature, a substitute name |
| methronic | possibly chemical; or a slip for Metonic |
| metopias | possibly plural of metopia, forehead anomaly |
| metranate | possibly a chemical salt name |
| metreza | possibly obs. metressa, a mistress |
| miae | possibly a Latin plural, mia, -ae |
| mibound | possibly mid-bound or a marbles term |
| micast | possibly miscast (OCR) or a mica verb |
| micasting | micast + -ing; possibly miscasting |
| micasts | micast + -s; possibly miscasts |
| microgramming | possibly microprogramming, or micrograms |
| mikie | perhaps a marbles term or pet form of Mick |
| millanare | perhaps an early form of milliner (Milaner) |
| millincost | perhaps an old plant name or a garbled unit |
| millithrum | perhaps a garbled unit name |
| minaway | possibly a dialect word, unplaced |
| minoize | perhaps "to make Minoan" |
| mishara | possibly a foreign term or a proper name |
| misviding | perhaps garbled misdividing or misguiding |
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